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A Cultural History of Death: Volumes 1-6 (The Cultural Histories Series)

Douglas J. Davies

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Description:How has our understanding of death evolved over the course of 2,500 years? What can recorded history tell us about how different cultures and societies have felt about, experienced, responded to and marked the occasion of death across different periods and lands?These are the questions pursued by 54 experts in this landmark work that explores the way past societies thought, behaved and developed as they wrestled with enormity of their own mortality. The volumes draw on history, anthropology and cultural studies to carve a complete picture of death, its symbols and interpretations from Antiquity to the present day.Individual editors ensure volumes are cohesive and chapter titles are also identical across the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or tracing a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.The six volumes are: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650) ; 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1789); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. Modern Age (1920 – 2000+)Themes (and chapter titles) Dead and Dying Bodies; The Sensory Aesthetics of Death; Emotions, Mortality and Vitality; Death’s Ritual-Symbolic Performance; Sites, Power and Politics of Death; Gender, Age and Identity; Explaining Belief, Law and Ethics; and The Undead and Eternal.The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp with 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with Notes, Bibliography and an Index.A Cultural History of Death is part of The Cultural Histories Series.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Cultural History of Death: Volumes 1-6 (The Cultural Histories Series). To get started finding A Cultural History of Death: Volumes 1-6 (The Cultural Histories Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: How has our understanding of death evolved over the course of 2,500 years? What can recorded history tell us about how different cultures and societies have felt about, experienced, responded to and marked the occasion of death across different periods and lands?These are the questions pursued by 54 experts in this landmark work that explores the way past societies thought, behaved and developed as they wrestled with enormity of their own mortality. The volumes draw on history, anthropology and cultural studies to carve a complete picture of death, its symbols and interpretations from Antiquity to the present day.Individual editors ensure volumes are cohesive and chapter titles are also identical across the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or tracing a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.The six volumes are: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650) ; 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1789); 5. Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. Modern Age (1920 – 2000+)Themes (and chapter titles) Dead and Dying Bodies; The Sensory Aesthetics of Death; Emotions, Mortality and Vitality; Death’s Ritual-Symbolic Performance; Sites, Power and Politics of Death; Gender, Age and Identity; Explaining Belief, Law and Ethics; and The Undead and Eternal.The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp with 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with Notes, Bibliography and an Index.A Cultural History of Death is part of The Cultural Histories Series.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Cultural History of Death: Volumes 1-6 (The Cultural Histories Series). To get started finding A Cultural History of Death: Volumes 1-6 (The Cultural Histories Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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